Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
Milan Kunderais a Czech-born writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981. He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores"...
NationalityCzechoslovakian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1929
country husband betrayal
Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of betrayal. But what if the paths came to an end? One could betray one's parents, husband, country, love, but when parents, husband, country, and love were gone - what was left to betray?
mean ignorance ideas
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas
men gone masters
But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master?
beer hypocrisy fans
Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness?
happiness laughing
Laughing deeply is living deeply.
two innovation marketing
Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing.
thinking actors
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
people doubt world
If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her own repertory of gestures. Arithmetically, it is simply impossible. Without the slightest doubt, there are far fewer gestures in the world than there are individuals. That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion: a gesture is more individual than an individual. We could put it in the form of an aphorism: many people, few gestures.
world novelists teach
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question,
philosophy problem metaphysical
There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.
courage character secret
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own "I" ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about. This novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.
love constant interrogation
A constant interrogation.
possibility existence new-possibilities
Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.
beauty beautiful mean
In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.